The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSI never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
More Epicurus Quotes
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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